Joseph Kosinski Quotes

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

I make movies I want to see.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.